Word: diversionism
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As in the standard 007 diversion, weapons and women are fondled with equal ardor, though sex is not nearly as important as the inflicting and suffering of physical pain. Indeed, Amis hits an almost pornographic intensity as his Bond gets his eardrums probed with a meat skewer, his septum stimulated...
Part of the massive North Vietnamese force surrounding the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh sits in Laos. The North Viet namese may also be moving the Ho Chi Minh Trail westward and protecting its flanks against possible allied ground interdiction from South Viet Nam. And Giap might use a major...
Whether the NVA masses will ever at tack Khe Sanh became a matter of growing doubt and deepening divisions. Some ranking officers wondered if the enemy buildup there was only a diversion for the urban offensive further south or for a bypass thrust at Quang Tri or Danang. There was...
During the attack on Lang Vei, Communist gunners poured nearly 1,500 rounds inside Khe Sanh's perimeters as a diversion-some six shells a minute in the heaviest NVA bombardment of the war. Giap also launched probing artillery and ground attacks on Marine outposts on surrounding Hills 861...
But both General Westmoreland and President Johnson interpreted Giap's attacks primarily in hard military terms: as a specific effort to draw U.S. troops away from the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, where Giap has assembled some 40,000 men for what could be the largest single battle of...